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Title: OT develpoing 70+ year old film - WWII
Post by: Homer J Simpson on February 12, 2017, 05:43:04 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBHwNH7iHsE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBHwNH7iHsE)
Title: Re: OT develpoing 70+ year old film - WWII
Post by: wkb on February 12, 2017, 08:10:30 pm
Thanks for sharing!

It happened to me once that I found an exposed old rol of film in a camera I bought at a camera fair. I contacted Kodak HQ for advice and within 2 days
I got an email reply with advice on how to proceed with developing it.  Unfortunately in my case the film proved to be entirely fogged but I sure found it
a very special experience.
Title: Re: OT develpoing 70+ year old film - WWII
Post by: james_s on February 14, 2017, 05:34:01 am
This sort of thing is fascinating, I wonder how much more usable undeveloped film is out there and what all is on it.

While not undeveloped, while cleaning out my late grandparents home a while back I found a box of color slides my grandpa brought back from WWII along with a yellowed list handwritten in German of the contents. They had apparently belonged to a German officer and contain a variety of scenes from rather dull landscapes to pictures of soldiers relaxing, some of tanks, trucks and planes. Pretty fascinating, I have no idea how my grandpa ended up with them, I didn't even know he was in the army until well after he died, he never talked about it when I was a kid.
Title: Re: OT develpoing 70+ year old film - WWII
Post by: ElektroQuark on February 14, 2017, 08:36:38 am
Video has been deleted.  :-\
Title: Re: OT develpoing 70+ year old film - WWII
Post by: John Heath on February 14, 2017, 01:48:49 pm
What happened to the video? I feel cheated.
Title: Re: OT develpoing 70+ year old film - WWII
Post by: Homer J Simpson on February 14, 2017, 02:34:29 pm
Different link,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_I4o_afITKg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_I4o_afITKg)